Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How much time does it take?

The Flaming Hot blog topic of the week is, "To run your business, how much time do you spend doing things other than create?" The answer, alot! Promoting ones self takes up time and energy pretty much every day. Listing new items, taking photos, uploading everything. Checking stock, ordering supplies. It never seems to end! I love glass and beadmaking, I wouldn't trade it for anything. But a little more free time would be nice once and a while!

About Me

I have been creating tiny works of art in glass since 2003, in my home studio in Victoria BC Canada. Working mainly in soft glass I love the colors and reactions they provide. I draw a lot of my inspiration from the Canadian wilderness and the lovely gardens in my area. Victoria is known as the “Garden City”. My personal love for animals and wildlife provide me with a constant source for artistic vision. My other passion is horses we own, breed and train! Between the two passions I am always busy! I am happy to do color requests if you have an idea you are dying to see transfer into glass, but can’t promise it’ll be exactly as your mind had it envisioned! Glass sometimes has a mind of it’s own.
I am a member of the ISGB and Pacific Pyros. I am a self representing artist which means all the beads you see are handmade, one by one, by me! They all go directly from the torch to the kiln, making for consistent crack free beads.
My ebay auctions are here
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnicval
Here is a link to my bead artist page!
http://www.beadartists.org/Gal718_NValentine_Studios_Gallery.asp